Sunday, October 31, 2021

Election Fraud In Georgia?

 

 

The republic, not the state:

Georgia's ruling party, Georgian Dream, won 19 of 20 mayoral elections including in the capital Tbilisi, electoral authorities said on Sunday, as the opposition alleged that ballots had been rigged.

Central Election Commission chief Georgi Kalandarishvili said Saturday's voting had been competitive, free and transparent, while independent election monitor Transparency International said it had identified up to 150 violations, ranging from minor to relatively serious.

Denouncing the vote, the head of the United National Movement (UNM) opposition party, Nika Melia, called on supporters to gather in Tbilisi on Sunday to agree a response.

"No one should have the illusion that they can get away with rigged, violent and insulting elections," Melia, who ran for office in the capital, was quoted as saying by the RIA news agency.

Around 2,000 to 3,000 protesters rallied in the centre of Tbilisi later on Sunday and Melia announced plans to stage a larger protest on Nov. 7, Russian new agencies reported.

 


The Soon-to-Be Embattled Taiwan

Taiwan's air force scrambled on Sunday to warn off eight Chinese aircraft including fighter jets that entered its air defence zone, its defence ministry said, at a time of heightened tensions across the sensitive Taiwan Strait.

Taiwan has complained for a year or more of repeated missions by China's air force near the self-ruled island, often in the southwestern part of its air defence zone near the Taiwan-controlled Pratas Islands.

The Chinese aircraft included six J-16 fighters, one anti-submarine aircraft and one surveillance aircraft, the defence ministry said in a statement late on Sunday.

Taiwan, which China claims as its own and has not ruled out taking by force, says Chinese military activities near the island jeopardize regional stability and repeatedly vows to defend its freedom and democracy.

 

 

And Now For Something Completely Different

 

There Is Only the Narrative

Would that people were truly students of history:

Williams Lake mayor Walt Cobb is being criticized for sharing a post about the ‘other side of residential schools,’ on his personal Facebook page.

The post, which the mayor shared late Friday morning Oct. 27, includes the words, ‘most of the older generation that did suffer are long dead and gone or have forgiven’ and ‘it seems to me that many of the new generations just want to be victims and feel the money would solve their pain.’

 


 

 



Because "Transparency"

 

 

Questions are for little people and the only one who buys Canadian propaganda are Canadians.

 

Happy Halloween!

 




Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Mid-Week Post

Four more shopping days until HALLOWEEN ...

 

Horde that toilet paper, children. 

You have an important task ahead of you:

In a recent Leger poll, only 44 per cent of Canadian households said they will be handing out candy this Halloween and about 41 per cent of BC households said they would keep up the tradition this year.

Ask one's self this: how many idiots gaze at their cell phones while using the toilet?

Would you shake their hands? 

Probably.

But don't handed out wrapped candy to children for some reason!

 

 

Your incompetent, opportunistic and sycophantic government and you:

Canada’s 150th birthday celebrations. Countries only turn 150 once — but Melanie, as minister responsible, turned ours into an unmitigated fiasco. Indigenous youth protested it, and citizens hated it, and even wrote to me about it. A sampling: “I have never seen such a poor, chaotic display. Shame on you Ottawa.” And: “Please, (Minister Joly), I beg you to step out of your protective shell and acknowledge what a mess Canada Day was and take some responsibility for it.” And: “Time for you to resign!” Ouch.

The Netflix fiasco. Melanie gifted the streaming giant tax-free status for a piddling amount of investment in Canada’s cultural sector — including in her home province, Quebec. The media weren’t impressed. The Globe and Mail said Melanie’s “fall from grace has been swift and merciless, sped by her maladroit attempts to sell a deal with Netflix.” The National Post noted that she had been “savaged in Quebec media, artistic and political circles.” And her hometown paper, the Journal de Montreal, said she sounds “like a living answering machine having a nervous breakdown.” Double ouch.

Ottawa Holocaust Monument. Melanie commissioned one, but she forgot something. The Washington Post noticed: “(Joly) forgot to mention Jews on the new Holocaust monument dedication plaque.” Oops.

 

(Sidebar: the silly b!#ch regards "inclusion" as one of her first tasks.)

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Ottawa’s deputy chief oil and gas regulator, Kathy Penney, says she has avoided all dealings with a major energy company that employs her son. Penney in federal ethics filings also said she would avoid “any communication with government officials” regarding TransCanada Energy Corporation: ‘My son Ben participates in a performance share unit program.’

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The Department of Transport gave favoured suppliers the inside track on sweetheart contracts, according to a review by Procurement Ombudsman Alexander Jeglic. “It appears Transport Canada treated bidders unfairly,” wrote Jeglic. “Some received more relevant information than others."


 

Imagine a government boot stamping on an opinion forever:

Free speech advocates are demanding Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault disclose the findings of a two-month public consultation on internet censorship. Guilbeault’s office earlier acknowledged it did not receive a single letter of support for first-ever web regulations: ‘Government is keeping this hidden from the public.’

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The federal privacy commissioner wasn’t consulted by the Liberal government in developing its online harms bill, proposed legislation that experts say could significantly impact Canadians’ privacy.

 

No, Goebbels is not done.



This would end if people simply told the government to go and f--- itself.

Stop taking its handouts (even if that IS our money).

The government imposed a lockdown of an entire country and silenced its critics. What do you think it will do to you?:

A cabinet policy to ban Canada Summer Jobs subsidies for pro-life groups appears headed for the Supreme Court after federal judges issued contradictory rulings on free expression. Legal challenges date from 2017: “The most sinister threat to free speech is compelled speech.”

 

 

Big Aboriginal will have its hands busy:

The Vatican says Pope Francis is willing to visit Canada where Indigenous leaders have been calling on him to apologize for the Catholic Church's role in residential schools.

 

A pointless endeavour, really.

Big Aboriginal i$ not out for apologie$.

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Of course it wasn't:

Former prime minister Jean Chretien says the abuse of Indigenous children that took place in Canadian residential schools while he was minister of Indian affairs was never brought to his attention at the time.

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This

The man who wrote the commentary on which a controversial radio ad claiming to debunk the "myths" of residential schools was based says he attended one himself and he stands by his opinions. 

 


This isn't problematic at all!:

While a key architect of the Toronto 18 terrorism plot to detonate truck bombs in Toronto is pushing for more access to electronics while out of prison, the parole board is worried that requiring him to give his computer passwords to his parole supervisor might violate his rights.

 

The right not to have one's legs sheared off by homemade bomb filled with ball bearings is not absolute, as one can plainly see. 


Also:

The Munich Higher Regional Court has imprisoned a German woman for 10 years after hearing she stood idly by as a 5-year-old Yazidi "slave" girl was left to die of thirst in the sun.

 

 

You can let in thousands of unvetted, illiterate and intolerant Afghans but you might entertain the idea of letting North Korean defectors who will learn English and make something of themselves?:

A human rights organization says Canadians will be able to sponsor people fleeing North Korea under a new program to help refugees escaping Kim Jong Un's authoritarian regime.

HanVoice says a pilot program being launched next February will allow Canadian citizens to sponsor women and children who have fled to a neighbouring country, such as Thailand.

Refugees who head to China from North Korea are sent back if caught, while those who make it to Thailand have no official status.

HanVoice says the pilot program will start next February with sponsorship of five families who have already fled to Thailand.

 

How many illegal migrants were never returned to the US, the first port of safety for those claiming persecution?

 

 

And why would women be reluctant to get these shots?:

As Hamilton continues to lag behind 30 other Ontario public health units in COVID-19 vaccination rates, a local OB-GYN says he’s seeing more ‘troubling’ metrics among would be mothers hesitant to get vaccinated.

McMaster University OB-GYN chair and Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) obstetrician Dr. Jon Barrett says a heightened concern for what’s being put into their bodies appears to be the driver of an inoculation rate lower than 60 per cent among soon to be moms.

 

Oh, yes:

 

Also:

While many parents were overjoyed at the news that Health Canada is considering approval of the first COVID-19 vaccine for kids age five to 11 in Canada, parents like Hubert are feeling more trepidatious, and public health officials said they are going to have a much more nuanced conversation with parents about vaccination than they did with adults.

 

That will include these facts, no doubt:

Dickson collected screenshots of the federal government’s data on their website that showed between October 2 and October 16 that the number of children under the age 12-years-old who have received at least one vaccine is slowly decreasing over time. 

It should be noted that children under 12 are still not eligible for the vaccine as of today, along with the fact that only 18 Canadians have died who were between the ages of 0-19. ...

Of course, children under 12 are not being given the vaccine then returning it the next day cause they didn’t like it anymore. The explanation for what this decrease is happening has to be either deliberate manipulation of the data or deep flaws in the data that the government is not providing a reason for. 

 

More here

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People with certain health conditions that make them moderately or severely immunocompromised may get a fourth mRNA Covid-19 shot, according to updated guidelines from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

 

Statistics on those who have received the shot in Canada

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) altered a key portion of its website last week around the time it disclosed to Congress that experiments it funded in China met the definition of gain-of-function.

The federal agency had a detailed explanation of gain-of-function research on its site, noting that the term refers to any research “that modifies a biological agent so that it confers new or enhanced activity to that agent.”

But the explanation was wiped between Oct. 19 and Oct. 21—possibly ahead of the NIH’s most recent disclosures on Oct. 20 about research it funded in China that increased the potency of a virus by modifying it.

The updated page now says, in its only reference to that type of research, that research involving enhanced potential pandemic pathogens (ePPPs) “is a type of so-called ‘gain-of-function’ (GOF) research.” It claims that “the vast majority of GOF research does not involve ePPP and falls outside the scope of oversight required for research involving ePPPs.”


 Political Cartoons by Tom Stiglich

 

 

Imagine a virus so deadly that it causes mass firings of medical professionals, law enforcement officers, various workers and exposes ordinary people for the petty, obnoxious, informing commissars that they always were:

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Threatening unvaccinated federal employees with loss of pay, health benefits or their jobs is constitutional, says legal counsel with the Department of Health. The new opinion contradicts a previous statement by the same department that mandatory immunization was legally impossible in Canada: “It cannot be made mandatory because of the Canadian Constitution.”

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Ontario's education minister says 50,000 people could lose their jobs if the province mandated COVID-19 vaccines for education workers.

Responding to the NDP in question period today, Stephen Lecce said such a policy would mean pink slips for tens of thousands of educators when Ontario already faces staffing challenges.

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As law enforcement officers, we already face higher levels of stress and mental illnesses due to the nature of our work. These have been compounded – considerably – by mandates that we believe are deeply unethical, threatening our livelihood, and dividing society.

As federal employees, what is being done to mitigate this stress? Moreover, what assurances are we given that the injections will not cause short or long-term side effects? What steps will be taken to ensure members are compensated for adverse side effects?

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The Ontario Superior Court has issued an interim injunction against the University Health Network’s (UHN) attempts to terminate a group of unvaccinated employees.

This comes after six UHN employees — some of them nurses —  brought forward an urgent motion to the court on Friday afternoon, the deadline UHN set to terminate those who had not yet received the COVID-19 vaccine.

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B.C.’s health minister called Tuesday a “solemn day” as 4,090 health care workers missed the deadline for mandatory COVID-19 vaccination and were placed on unpaid leave before they could potentially lose their job.

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The Lachine Hospital will be closing its emergency room overnight starting Nov. 7, the McGill University Health Centre confirmed on Monday.

“ER will be opened from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. seven days a week. The ICU will also close,” said MUHC spokesperson Gilda Salomone.

 

That's one way to cover up for decades of mismanagement.

Blame it on COVID! 


Also - "freedom" and "transparency":

An Ottawa mom has been legally banned from telling her 14-year-old son not to get the COVID-19 vaccines and prohibited by court order from showing him online information that calls into question the safety or efficacy of the vaccines.

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A World Health Organization scientist wanted for questioning by the Commons health committee instead granted an interview to the subsidized press in Ottawa. Dr. Bruce Aylward, a Canadian epidemiologist who’d praised China, made no mention of the parliamentary summons: “The mission was a success.”


 

There is a sound reason to have never joined the EU in the first place:

Poland's Constitutional Tribunal has ruled that Polish law takes precedence over European Union law. The landmark ruling, which seeks to reassert national sovereignty over certain judicial matters, has called into question the legitimacy of the EU's supranational legal and political order.

 

We don't have to trade with China:

An Indian diplomat’s microphone conspicuously cut out during a United Nations (U.N.) transport conference in Beijing last week just as the envoy began to criticize China’s infrastructure-building Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported Wednesday.

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Boston Celtics player Enes Kanter’s pro-Tibet statements have garnered backlash for the National Basketball Association in China, with his team’s games pulled from broadcasts just two years after the league became a flashpoint in U.S.-China relations.

As of Thursday morning in Hong Kong, internet giant Tencent Holdings Ltd. removed all live-streaming for upcoming Celtics games, leaving fans confused and inquiring in the comment section of its sports page. The NBA and its China arm didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment from Bloomberg News. Tencent also didn’t respond.

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Russian and Chinese warships held their first joint patrols in the western Pacific Ocean over the past week, Russia's defence ministry said on Saturday, a move Japan said it was monitoring.

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

It's Just Your Weekly Grocery Bill

Canadians voted to be over-taxed, to wait in breadlines and go without:

Every week, Melanie Morrison gathers data on the prices charged by Canadian grocers for tens of thousands of products.

But these days, Morrison, who runs a company based in Saskatoon called BetterCart Analytics, is mostly interested in the price of just three of them: evaporated milk, peanut butter and plain old butter.

Based on the data she’s collected on these three products, Morrison is convinced that Statistics Canada’s efforts to track food price inflation data may require a big rethink.

Poor data collection on food prices means Canadians may be finding it much harder to put food on the table than the federal government is acknowledging, after all.

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Industry insiders and experts are predicting double-digit percentage price hikes on certain food and consumer goods in 2022, continuing the current trend of a rising cost of living.

Canadians can expect to see a minimum 20 percent price increase on groceries and essential products, such as food, toilet paper, pharmaceuticals, home building materials, and gasoline due to supply chain challenges, said Ron Foxcroft, founder and CEO of Fox 40 International Inc., a Hamilton, Ont.-based company specializing in sporting and marine products that are sold in 140 countries.



Grifters Have to Grift

As they say:

An organization that received $5.8 million from the federal government to help job seekers from under-represented communities is refusing to say if it paid the prime minister’s mother, Margaret Trudeau, to speak at an event it held this month.

She appeared in Elevate.ca’s Think2030 series, on October 14, to speak about mental health and the effects of the pandemic.

Elevate is a Toronto-based not-for-profit that says its mission is “to unite Canada’s innovators to solve society’s greatest challenges.”

It currently lobbies the federal government for funding through FedDev Ontario, a federal regional economic development agency.

As recently as 2019, Elevate was also registered to lobby the Prime Minister’s Office for funding for one of its events, Elevate Tech Fest.

In June, the federal economic development agency for Ontario announced it would provide the funding for the organization’s Elevate Talent program, intended to help people from marginalized groups find jobs in the tech and creative sectors.

The organization would not say how much, if anything, it paid Margaret Trudeau to participate in the symposium but denied there was a relationship between the event and the government funding.

 

Just like with the WE "charity" right? 


More:

A federal contractor that booked Margaret Trudeau as a group speaker received $5.8 million in federal funding prior to the election, records show. CTV News yesterday said the Prime Minister’s mother refused comment when asked if she charged her usual $20,000 speaking fee: “We are not our fathers and mothers.”

What a useless head of a useless family.


Alberta Voted Against Equalisation

Now what?:

Over 60 percent of Albertans have voted to remove the principle of equalization from the Constitution.

“A clear majority of Albertans have sent a powerful message to the rest of Canada on equalization,” Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said on social media.

“This strong democratic expression gives Alberta’s government a renewed mandate to pursue a fair deal for all Albertans.”

The results of the Oct. 18 poll, held in conjunction with municipal and school board elections across the province, were released on Oct. 26. ...

Kenney has said that the referendum vote per se does not give Alberta the power to unilaterally remove the principle from the Constitution, but it does give the province more leverage to get others on board to remove it.

 

And who would do that, Mr. Kenney? 


More:

However, the program — which has been around since 1957 and distributes tax revenue from federal coffers and sends it to provinces that are less able to raise provincial funds to administer provincial programs — is not likely to go anywhere.

It would require constitutional negotiations and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has signalled he has little interest in tackling equalization.

 

Which would make this referendum useless.

Canadians have so little understanding of how centralised their government is and how little power they truly have.

 

Kenney can either shut off the taps or continue being Quebec's wallet.



The Definition of Stupidity

Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

Cases in point:

In one of the biggest changes, long-time defence minister Harjit Sajjan is being removed from the defence portfolio and replaced by Procurement Minister Anita Anand.

Anand successfully handled the government’s vaccine rollout and was seen as one of the standouts in Trudeau’s last cabinet. 

(Sidebar: no, she bloody hasn't!)

Sajjan, a former soldier and police officer, leaves defence as the military deals with an ongoing sexual misconduct crisis with several top generals facing accusations and concerns the department has done little to make women feel safe in the forces.

International development is a much smaller department with much less prominence internationally, but Trudeau insisted Sajjan was not being demoted and had done good work trying to reform the defence department.

 

(Sidebar: it's totally a demotion and we all know it.)

 

The complete list of failures and favouritism here

 

Other mistakes:

- Goebbels is now the environment minister but one is sure that he won't let go of his pet project.

- Bardish Chagger is out.

 


What would one worry about?:

What is not publicly documented is another side of the military’s response to COVID-19, involving the work of defence intelligence and its medical experts in monitoring and assessing the threat posed by COVID-19 in the crucial early months of the outbreak, first in China, then globally.

 

 

You paid people not work and bribed them to vote Liberal.

Good luck getting them to be over-taxed and under-employed:

Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough says shifting the government’s COVID-19 support programs from ones that were more “passive” to those that “incentivize work” is a reflection of the country’s success in fighting the pandemic.

 

Would this be the success of killing senior citizens and shutting down an economy?

Or firing people over their reluctance to have injected into their bodies something that is likely to harm them?

 

 

This was instituted by someone who has never, ever worked in a school:

Parents of elementary school children in Toronto are expressing concern after their children were asked not to speak during lunch in an effort to curb transmission of COVID-19.

 

Good luck with that, guys.


Friday, October 22, 2021

And the Rest of It

Seven years ago, Islamist terrorists killed Patrice Vincent and Nathan Cirillo.

Do not forget. 

 

 

Nonsense, Mr. Murphy

Justin is busy being a heartless, self-entitled, lazy prick who owes his good fortunes to his dad's money, China and legions of stupid voters:

Are we now, after such an historic moment, having parliamentary debates about civil liberties and vaccine mandates? Are we seeing question period testing the government on the energy crisis engulfing half the world? Do we have inquiries into inflation and the increasing estrangement of Alberta?

I can reduce all this to one question: is the Canadian Parliament, after the most important election in our lifetimes, even sitting?

 

This is Raj Grewal:

The eyewitness, who was near the front of the line and knows Grewal by sight, said the MP was arguing with an RCMP officer, who grew visibly upset as Grewal apparently insisted the men be let in.

In an email, Grewal flatly denied being embroiled in a commotion at the gate, and said he’d not helped anyone enter the party without an invitation. “Guests at the reception had invitations and were processed at registration,” he said last week.

The eyewitness account was supported by a second eyewitness, who was also in the line, though this man didn’t know the person who appeared to be helping the group.

“At least some if not all didn’t have invitations,” the first eyewitness said. “It was the MP and his friends who were pushing (the issue).

 

And this is Raj Grewal

After a three-day preliminary inquiry, former Liberal MP Raj Grewal was committed to stand trial on Wednesday over allegations he used his political position to solicit millions of dollars in loans, did not inform the federal ethics commissioner about the loans, and further misused his government-funded constituency office budget.


No one ever does, right?:

CMHC yesterday acknowledged it never consulted the Privacy Commissioner before collecting personal financial details on 8,951,718 homeowners including mortgage holders who had no business with CMHC. The Privacy Commissioner did not comment: “They need the trust of Canadians to operate.”

 

Are there shoes for this?:

A northern Alberta First Nation says it has completed the first phase of ground penetrating radar in its search for children's remains at a former residential school site.

 

And the bodies are where?:

Let me refer back to a National Post story that explains what ground penetrating radar actually does. They interviewed a professor of Anthropology who is also the director of the Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology. She said this of ground penetrating radar:

“It doesn’t actually see the bodies. It’s not like an X-ray.” 

“What it actually does is it looks for the shaft. When a grave is dug, there is a grave shaft dug and the body is placed in the grave, sometimes in a coffin, as in the Christian burial context. What the ground-penetrating radar can see is where that pit itself was dug, because the soil actually changes when you dig a grave. And occasionally, if it is a coffin, the radar can pick up the coffin sometimes as well.”

 

Interesting.

 

Also

The chief of a Manitoba First Nation has been arrested and charged with a number of sexual offences, RCMP said.

Raymond Keeper, 65, Chief of Little Grand Rapids First Nation, was arrested Thursday after police wrapped up an investigation into texts sent in late September to a 16-year-old girl.

Keeper is facing charges of luring a person under 18, two counts of sexual assault, sexual assault with a weapon, and touching for a sexual purpose while in a position of authority.


 

This is why having a centralised government deciding things for everyone is a bad idea:

Some 2,000 Polish coal miners traveled to Luxembourg to stage a noisy protest Friday against a decision by the European Union's top court to shut down a major brown coal mine in Poland and to fine the country for flouting the ruling.

 

On the Korean Peninsula:

Since his face was smeared with nerve agent in Kuala Lumpur airport, mystery has surrounded the hit job that brought down the half-brother of Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s leader.

But new revelations suggest the murdered one-time heir to the North’s despotic regime had been working for the intelligence agency of Pyongyang’s main enemy: South Korea.

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But among Moon's main motivations - and one that he appears to have believed is worth the risk of provoking the North - was his desire to build more autonomy within South Korea's alliance with the United States and eventually win operational control of allied forces in the event of a war, according to officials and analysts.

"When this government unveiled F-35 fighter jets in 2019 after buying them from the U.S., I wondered why they would do that even as they want to champion inter-Korean engagement, knowing the North hates it so much," one diplomatic source in Seoul said. "But I later realised that in Moon's concept of self-reliant defence, they do what they plan to do, come rain or come shine."

 

South Korean military independence is not a new idea but it is one that Moon wishes to be his legacy before his term ends. 

Is this move vanity or an idea whose time has come?

Let's see next May.

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Blame that on itself and China:

North Korea has never been more isolated from the international community as a result of its drastic steps to prevent COVID-19, and the ruptured global ties are having “a dramatic impact on the human rights of the people inside the country,” the U.N.’s independent investigator on the reclusive northeast Asian nation said Friday.


We Don't Have to Trade With China

No, we do not have to:

Beijing warned Slovakia and the Czech Republic on Friday that nobody should harbour any illusions about the "necessary measures" China will take to defend its sovereignty, ahead of a visit to both countries next week by Taiwan's foreign minister.

What would Jan Kubis and Jozef Gabcik do?



No, this isn't dishonest at all:

Suppliers to Chinese telecoms giant Huawei and China's top chipmaker SMIC got billions of dollars worth of licenses from November through April to sell them goods and technology despite their being on a U.S. trade blacklist, documents released by Congress showed on Thursday.

According to the documents, first obtained by Reuters, 113 export licenses worth $61 billion were approved for suppliers to ship products to Huawei while another 188 licenses valued at nearly $42 billion were greenlighted for Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC).

The data also showed that more than 9 out of 10 license applications were granted to SMIC suppliers while 69% of requests to ship to Huawei were approved over the same period.

 


If China goes under, what your future then? Is there another countries' slave labour to exploit?:

Much of the West condemns China for its crackdown on freedom and democracy in the city, spearheaded by a new national security law that critics say is systematically snuffing out dissent. Zeman, 72, has not only defended Beijing’s policies but embraced them as a welcome tonic for Hong Kong’s recent turmoil.

He acts, in fact, as an economic advisor to Carrie Lam, the chief executive who has loyally implemented the Chinese government’s directives in the wake of mass protests in 2019.

“I’m looking forward to a very positive future for Hong Kong,” Zeman told Bloomberg Television recently. “With the new system and the security law and all these things that have helped create stability in Hong Kong, Hong Kong will be a great place.

“I believe that Beijing will only do greater things for Hong Kong.”


It's Just Energy

It grows on trees or something:

Replacing coal-fired electricity with renewable energy will cost Canadian taxpayers and hydro ratepayers up to $33.7 billion annually, with only minor reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.

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As Justin Trudeau’s government seeks to “decarbonize” Canadian industry, the Liberals are advancing what they call a “just transition” devoted to “helping workers and communities thrive in a net-zero carbon economy.” While it sounds noble, it’s an initiative based on the idea of phasing out jobs in Canada’s oil and gas sector. Moreover, it neglects to recognize the work being done by the energy industry, such as investing in carbon capture and storage, which reduce emissions without punitive carbon taxes. 


 

No wonder Alberta wants to shut off the tap$:

The key findings of the final report of an Alberta government-commissioned inquiry into campaigns against the province’s energy industry says it confirms the existence of “well-funded foreign interests” spreading “misinformation” to landlock Alberta’s oil and gas sector.

The report, compiled by forensic and restructuring accountant Steve Allan, was submitted to the provincial government in July and was made public on Oct. 21.

Announcing the release of the report, Energy Minister Sonya Savage said Albertans “have the right to be upset” about the campaigns that have helped counter fossil fuel projects and led to negative consequences for the economy.

“People lost their jobs, businesses went under, families were hurt, government revenues from royalties were impacted. We lost billions of dollars in royalties,” she said at a press conference on Oct. 21.

The report says that between 2003 and 2019, Canadian-based environmental initiatives received $1.28 billion in foreign funding, while noting that the estimate is likely understated. Of that, $925 million was used by Canadian charities for “environmental initiatives,” $352 million was used to fund “Canadian-based environmental initiatives” that remained in the United States such as anti-pipeline campaigns, and $54.1 million was used specifically for “anti-Alberta resource development activity.”



The selfish, heartless prick who held an election no one wanted has the audacity to attack Kenney for the equalisation referendum people wanted to have:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau slammed Alberta Premier Jason Kenny on Thursday, saying the recent referendum on equalization payments was "incredibly political" and that the federal government could not reform equalization without consensus from provinces. 

No, Quebec isn't a nation, no matter how special you think it is.


 

An Institution Too Big to Fail

Just let the government get involved some more. 

What could go wrong?:

And while the governing Liberals promised during the fall federal election campaign to hire 7,500 family doctors, nurses and nurse practitioners over four years, Smart says Canada remains without a human health-resource plan.

“We know there’s a shortage,” she said. “But what we don’t really know is: Where is the biggest need? How many doctors are needed in different locations? How might new ways of delivering team-based primary care impact those numbers? It makes it very challenging to do human health-resource planning when you don’t have the data.”

 

A cap is put on training and hiring medical professionals (they call it "lack of placements"), nothing is done to keep them (one can get better paid elsewhere), existing professionals are over-tired, under-employed and fired for ideological reasons. Couple that with an older and sicker population and you have the current mess.

 

(Insert anti-American comment based on arrogance and ignorance here.)

 

When You Think of Petty Tyranny, Think of Canada

Let one be clear:

this was never about public safety.

It was never about stopping a virus.

This is a thinly-veiled tactic to control the right to move, express one's self, earn a living and breathe freely.

Canadians let their government do this to them.

History will not forget:

Canada is introducing a standardized national vaccine passport for domestic and international travel, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Oct. 21.

The proof-of-vaccination certificate, which Canadians will need to travel both within the country and internationally, is based on an international standard for Smart health cards and uses the provincial vaccine certificate already in place as its framework.

“Today I’m happy to confirm that all provinces and territories have confirmed that they will be moving forward with a standardized national proof of vaccination,” Trudeau said at a press conference on Oct. 21.

He said Saskatchewan, Ontario, Québec, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, and all three territories have already put this national standard for proof of vaccination into use.

The digital vaccine passport will include the holder’s name and date of birth and a QR code that includes their vaccination history. It will also show the number of doses received, the type of vaccine, lot numbers, and dates of vaccination. Paper copies will also be accepted.

 

How many cards like this exist for measles and flu shots?

I'll wait.

 

The push for these Kennkarte are not without hitches:

A threatened vaccine order on air and rail passengers will not apply until November 30 at the earliest and will not be compulsory, the Department of Transport said yesterday. Unvaccinated domestic travelers can board with proof of a negative Covid test, similar to rules for international travelers introduced last winter: ‘Details on exceptions will be provided in coming days.’

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The Department of Citizenship yesterday said it placed no restrictions on domestic use of a vaccine passport for Canadians immunized against Covid, but did not expect it to be used for ID. Parliamentary committees have repeatedly opposed any attempts to introduce a national identity card, while one privacy commissioner last year ruled Canadians cannot be forced to surrender health information for ID purposes: ‘No person shall require an individual to produce a health services number as a condition of receiving a product or service other than a health service.’

 

What utter rot.

It will include one's date of birth and history of shots (SEE above).


People already have had their privacy invaded and are already been forced into getting shots they do not want.

Did one forget?:

To reach the unvaccinated, the government is tapping into databases of contact information provided to the Ministry of Health when registering for or renewing a health card, as well as databases “containing information pertaining to vaccines already administered to persons in Ontario,” Anna Miller, a spokesperson with the ministry explained.

“The Ministry of Health has the authority under section 37(1)(c) of the Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004 to use and link the information from these databases for planning and delivering the COVID-19 vaccination program.

“This includes contacting individuals to encourage vaccination,” Miller said.

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Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough says it's likely that people who lose their jobs for not complying with employer COVID-19 vaccine policies will not be eligible for employment insurance (EI).

"It's a condition of employment that hasn't been met," Qualtrough said in an interview with CBC's Power & Politics. "And the employer choosing to terminate someone for that reason would make that person ineligible for EI.

"I can tell you that's the advice I'm getting, and that's the advice I'll move forward with."

 

(Sidebar: when were these conditions introduced in the form of a contract?) 


Remember - this is all YOUR fault for not complying.


Also:

Federal employees opposed to compulsory vaccination yesterday launched a $1,000-per worker fundraising drive to mount a legal challenge of the cabinet order. The campaign came as a former privacy commissioner described vaccine mandates as abhorrent: “We have to preserve our personal freedom and liberty and not give into the dictates of governments.”

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Because that's helpful:

London Health Sciences Centre is turfing 84 employees, including 33 nurses, for not complying with its mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy as its overall staff vaccination rate hits 99 per cent.

Of the 84 employees being terminated with cause, 43 are working in clinical roles and 41 are working in non-clinical departments of the hospital, officials said Friday. The hospital has nearly 15,000 employees.

 

Yes. Show everyone who is boss here, hospitals.

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Make Justin eat them:

Health Canada is also looking at the possibility of extending the shelf life of some vaccines based on new data from the manufacturers, so they can be kept in storage for a few extra months.

Arrangements have been made between the government, the manufacturers and COVAX, the global vaccine sharing initiative, to donate doses that can’t be used or stored.

 

(Sidebar: the COVAX that Justin stole from when his Chinese deal fell through.)

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No one wants to go into your stupid building, anyway:

The CBC yesterday said it will seal all its buildings from unvaccinated visitors in the most extreme Covid precaution of any Crown corporation. The ban on unimmunized people includes the general public, contractors and TV and radio guests: “Any individual who does not meet this requirement will be refused access.”

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Way to stand up for your fellows there, Erin:

Speaking to TVO this week, O’Toole said the party would respect the decision by the Board of Internal Economy on mandatory vaccinations for MPs in the House.

“The (Board of Internal Economy), the Speaker … has decided, and Conservatives, as we always have, will respect all public health guidelines, including in our own conduct as members of Parliament,” O’Toole told the Ontario network earlier this week.

“The BOIE and the Speaker has ruled, and we will respect that.”

Asked if that means O’Toole would forbid his unvaccinated MPs from returning to Ottawa, a senior Conservative source told Global News that “it’s up to the Commons to make the rules … so that’s probably what (O’Toole’s) position will be.”

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Just like with the vaccinated?:

Unvaccinated people could be reinfected with COVID every 16 months, according to a study from Yale Public Health.

The study, published in the October issue of The Lancet Microbe, models the presence of natural immunity to COVID among the unvaccinated over time.

The model is calculated based on endemic conditions, where everyone has either been infected with the virus or has been vaccinated for it. The projections demonstrate that natural immunity is rather short-lived, lead author Jeffrey Townsend, a professor of biostatistics, tells Yale Daily News.

Three months after first contracting COVID, the risk of reinfection is about five per cent, according to co-author Hayley Hassler. At 17 months, that number rises to 50 per cent. Those odds vary at an individual level, she explains.

 

(Sidebar: I'm sure they do.)


Yes, about that:

A new study in American veterans posted to the medRxiv* preprint server suggests severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccines are less effective in preventing infection after six months. The decline was most significant with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, with vaccine effectiveness plummeting from 88% to 3%.

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But Israel paid a price for the early rollout. Health officials, and then Pfizer, said their data showed a dip in the vaccine's protection around six months after receiving the second shot.

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According to the study, conducted in Cleveland, Ohio and published in the MedRxiv journal last month, people who were infected with the coronavirus enjoy significant long-term immunity from the virus, which is unlikely to be increased by being injected with one of the coronavirus vaccinations now on the market.

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Scientists who studied a big COVID-19 outbreak in the US state of Massachusetts concluded that vaccinated people who got so-called breakthrough infections carried about the same amount of the coronavirus as those who did not get the shots.

 

But why listen to facts?

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Indoor mask mandates at schools will likely to stay in place even after young children receive COVID-19 vaccines in the coming weeks, said U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy.

 

These vaccines:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says as soon as Health Canada approves the COVID-19 vaccine for kids, Pfizer will ship millions of doses to vaccinate children as young as five.

 

For the record, Justin Trudeau is a heartless prick whose disposition could be changed utterly once he is run down by an avalanche.

 

I really hope that this not a thing:

 

My "heartless prick" comment still stands. 

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Yeah, and it will take two weeks to flatten the curve:

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has announced plans to gradually lift all COVID-19 public health restrictions over the coming months, including masking requirements by March 2022.
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Why are heads not rolling for this?:

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded research in China that created a more potent form of a bat coronavirus, according to newly disclosed documents.

An experiment conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, situated near where the first cases of COVID-19 were reported, compared mice infected with the original bat coronavirus to mice infected with a modified strain created by researchers, according to the documents.

The mice infected with the modified version “became sicker than those infected” with the original version, Lawrence Tabak, the principal deputy director at the NIH, told lawmakers in letters (pdf) on Oct. 20.

The “limited experiment” was aimed at seeing if “spike proteins from naturally occurring bat coronaviruses circulating in China were capable of binding to the human ACE2 receptor in a mouse model,” Tabak wrote, adding that the “unexpected result” was not “something that the researchers set out to do.”

Whether intended or not, the research fits the definition of gain-of-function, some experts say.

 

"Be Not Afraid!"


 

Brothers and sisters, do not be afraid to welcome Christ and accept his power. Help the Pope and all those who wish to serve Christ and with Christ's power to serve the human person and the whole of mankind. Do not be afraid. Open wide the doors for Christ. To his saving power open the boundaries of States, economic and political systems, the vast fields of culture, civilization and development. Do not be afraid. Christ knows "what is in man". He alone knows it.

So often today man does not know what is within him, in the depths of his mind and heart. So often he is uncertain about the meaning of his life on this earth. He is assailed by doubt, a doubt which turns into despair. We ask you therefore, we beg you with humility and trust, let Christ speak to man. He alone has words of life, yes, of eternal life.

 

Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Mid-Week Post

Eleven more shopping days until Halloween ...


The people have spoken but does this mean the taps will be turned off?:

With Albertans apparently voting “yes” in a referendum on the elimination of Canada’s equalization program, advocates hope the federal government will enter into negotiations that could see the scheme reformed.

Kevin Lacey, the Alberta director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, described the referendum as one of the “biggest and most significant constitutional referendums” since the Charlottetown Accord’s failure in 1992.

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Laurentian elites may consider Albertans such hicks they don’t even understand that equalization doesn’t involve their government sending a cheque back east. But when people know they’re being ripped off, telling them they’re too dumb to understand the situation will not soothe them.

 

To wit: 

The equalisation program in Canada was introduced to settle financial disparities between provinces and there are no conditions to how that money is spent. In effect, it acts as welfare. A more well-off province will fund a province not as well-off.

Alberta, a province with oil wealth, has a population of 4,442,879 and has given Quebec, which has a population of 8,604,495, roughly 221 billion dollars (51 per cent of all payments) since 1957.

The same Quebec that demands to be treated differently.


The final results of the referendum will be known on October 26th.

If Kenney and Albertans are serious, it will be a cold winter indeed for the east. 

 

 

No official opposition then (such as it was)?:

When the Parliament resumes on Nov. 22, only those who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 will be allowed to enter the House of Commons precinct, the Parliament’s Board of Internal Economy has decided.

Exceptions will be allowed for those with valid medical reasons, but they have to present proof of a recent negative COVID-19 antigen test result.

The restriction applies to members of Parliament, their staff, political research office employees, administration employees, journalists, parliamentary business visitors, contractors, and consultants.

 

More

A Commons committee last night rejected compulsory vaccination for MPs. Proof of a negative Covid test will do just as well, Speaker Anthony Rota said in a statement: ‘Details with respect to implementation are being developed.’

 

This Anthony Rota:

House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota says a federal attempt to shield documents related to the firing of two scientists is a violation of parliamentary privilege and must be tossed out of court.

In a notice of motion filed today in Federal Court, Rota says pursuant to its parliamentary privileges, the House of Commons has the power to send for the “persons, papers and records” it deems necessary to its functions. 

He says this constitutionally entrenched power is fundamental to Canada’s system of parliamentary democracy, and to Parliament’s critical role in acting as the “grand inquest of the nation” and in holding the executive branch of government to account.

The Liberal government asked the court last month to prohibit disclosure of records concerning dismissal of two scientists from Canada’s highest-security laboratory.

The move came shortly after Rota reprimanded Public Health Agency of Canada head Iain Stewart over his repeated refusal to provide the unredacted documents to MPs on the Canada-China relations committee.

 

Also:

Quebec registered 458 new cases and the deaths of two additional people attributed to the COVID-19 health crisis Wednesday.

 

This Quebec:

Quebec has released a new type of digital proof of COVID-19 vaccination, this one meant to be used for travel outside of the province in what the province calls a "pan-Canadian standard."

This new version is also a QR (quick response) code similar to the one already downloaded by millions of Quebecers during the mass vaccination campaign.

Released Monday, it will "be recognized and can be used in all Canadian provinces, as well as in several American states and countries around the world," the province said in a news release, so that the user can prove his or her vaccination status.

 

How is that working out for you guys? 

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These statistics.

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Hundreds of anti-vaccine protesters joined some political leaders in Sofia on Wednesday to demonstrate against Bulgaria's decision to make a COVID-19 "Green Certificate" mandatory for access to restaurants, theatres and shopping malls.

The interim health ministry announced the move on Tuesday to try to slow a surge in infections and deaths in the European Union's least vaccinated country.

However, it was greeted by a chorus of disapproval from business and some politicians with an eye on Bulgaria's third parliamentary election this year, on Nov. 14.

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What can go wrong?:

The Biden administration on Wednesday outlined its plan to vaccinate millions of U.S. children ages 5 to 11 as soon as the COVID-19 shot is authorized for them, readying doses and preparing locations ahead of the busy holiday season.

 

One should also remind one that Regeneron is not used in Canada but it is in the US.

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Yes, about that:

“There is no evidence that ivermectin works to prevent or treat COVID-19, and it is not authorized for this use,” Health Canada wrote in a press release.

 

Is that so?: 

Role of ivermectin in the prevention of SARS-CoV-2 infection among healthcare workers in India: A matched case-control study 

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Ivermectin, 'wonder drug' from Japan: the human use perspective

 


Your corrupt, incompetent and lazy government and you:

Canada should align with its allies to exclude Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies from its 5G network, says former Liberal justice minister Irwin Cotler.

“We should be in the company of our democratic partners in the 5G, and not take a different position where that different position is in no instances warranted here,” Cotler said in an interview.

Canada remains the only country among the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance that hasn’t made a decision regarding Huawei and 5G, despite the intelligence community’s warnings about the company’s threats to national security. The other four countries have banned or taken steps to ban Huawei from their 5G networks.

Huawei was founded by a former officer of the People’s Liberation Army and has close ties to Beijing. The U.S. government has urged its allies to exclude the company from the West’s next-generation communications, saying Beijing could use it for spying.

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The cost of just about everything that Statistics Canada measures was more expensive in September, pushing headline inflation to its highest in almost two decades and complicating the Bank of Canada’s plans to keep interest rates pinned near zero until well into 2022.

 

More:

Driving most of the increase were prices at the pumps as consumers paid 32.8 per cent more last month for gasoline than in September 2020.

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The price of certain food items is soaring across the country and surpassing the rate of inflation, new Statistics Canada data reveals. 

According to the federal department, meats, produce and dairy items are up 20% to 30% in select provinces. 

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CMHC in a mammoth data scoop compiled personal financial records on nearly nine million mortgage holders, according to Access To Information files. Data obtained without borrowers’ informed consent included personal income, municipal addresses, credit scores and household debts even for homeowners who were not CMHC customers: “No, we shouldn’t need a privacy impact assessment.”

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The Department of Public Works plans to install cafés and lounge seating in federal offices so employees can “zone out, relax or stretch,” according to Access To Information records. Staff also proposed special seating near windows called “reflection areas” where employees might look outside: “Shouldn’t we?”




This is is how you play the long con game:

While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in Kamloops on Monday, finally meeting with the Tk’emlúps te Secwe̓pemc First Nations after his fiasco over skipping the opportunity on Truth and Reconciliation Day, Sept. 30, he told media that all requested documentation Ottawa has on residential schools had been turned over to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) in Winnipeg. The centre aims to be the First Nations’ archive for the history and memories of residential school survivors.

“All the records in possession of the federal government have already been turned over to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation in Winnipeg,” Trudeau said Monday in response to a journalist’s question. “We will continue to look to make sure that there are no others that we have remaining to turn over, but we have, in our understanding, turned over all of those records.”

The centre disputes that claim, Global News has reported.

“At present, we are still waiting for Canada to provide the final versions of school narratives and supporting documents used in the Independent Assessment Process to the NCTR,” the centre said on its website . “The NCTR has various school narratives on its website, but some are out of date. For other schools, no narrative has ever been provided.”

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Senior members of a British Columbia First Nation have issued an open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that petitions him to formally commit to seven steps he could take to show he is serious about reconciliation.

 

It is often said that there is no honour among thieves.

Cases in point ... 


 

Your showmanship won't change things, Moon:

South Korea should redouble its efforts to become a global defence industry leader, President Moon Jae-in told a military expo in the outskirts of Seoul on Wednesday, after landing at the site in an air force fighter jet.

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North Korea test-fired a new, smaller ballistic missile from a submarine, state media confirmed on Wednesday, a move that analysts said could be aimed at more quickly fielding an operational missile submarine.

 

Start worrying about the country whose leadership you tried legitimising. 



I'll bet China is a huge financial blackhole:

China Evergrande Group (3333.HK) has dropped plans to sell a 50.1% stake in its property services unit, which would have raised $2.6 billion, dealing another blow to the cash-strapped developer's efforts to raise cash to pay its creditors.

Once China's top-selling developer and now reeling under more than $300 billion in liabilities, Evergrande was in talks to sell the stake in Evergrande Property Services (6666.HK) to smaller rival Hopson Development Holdings (0754.HK).

 


Mount Aso erupts:

A volcano erupted in Japan on Wednesday, blasting ash several miles into the sky and prompting officials to warn against the threat of lava flows and falling rocks, but there were no reports of injuries or casualties.